Lamp in Assassin Mews

  • Comedy
1/1/1962
65

Storyline

To beautify his street and trim city spending, stuffy councilman Jack (Francis Matthews) pushes to have the last gas lamp in town removed. But this angers his neighbors Albert (Ian Fleming) and Victoria (Amy Dalby), an inconspicuous pair of serial killers who choose Jack as their next victim. This dark comedy also stars Lisa Daniely as Mary, a local advocate who fights tooth and nail against Jack's modernization efforts.

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      • Geronimo1967

        This really only works as a piece of nostalgia, nowadays - but it has a gentle charm to it that illustrates a semblance of community spirit (and mischievous bloody-mindedness) that just about keeps it watchable for an hour. It all centres around a local campaign to save the one remaining gas lamp in a small community. This lamp requires the services of a full-time lamp-lighter and the council have decreed that electric lighting is cheaper and more efficient. Councillor "Jack" (Francis Matthews) is the principal driver of this change and when he infiltrates a protest meeting he falls for "Lisa" (Mary Clarke) and perhaps romance can blossom - despite the fact that they are on different sides of the argument? Meantime, this proposed change is ...

        February 11, 2023

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